Apple and Sun are teaming up to create a really really nice version of StarOffice (or otherwise known as OpenOffice) that will sport the aqua interface and other Mac OS X features.. Here’s the article ..
July 2002
Monthly Archive
Sat 27 Jul 2002
Thu 25 Jul 2002
Today marks the first version of OpenOffice for Mac OS X .. OpenOffice, the open source variant of Sun’s StarOffice, provides the standard office applications: word processor, spreadsheet, presentation, html editor, drawer, and equation editor. Open Office supports Linux (i386 & PPC), Windows, Mac OS X, Solaris (i386 & Sparc). While Open Office for Mac OS X does not currently have the Aqua look and feel, it is scheduled for the near future.
Additional information can be found at the Open Office for Mac OS X website.
Thu 25 Jul 2002
Shuttle released the SS51 mini-case. Anandtech.com reviewed the system. The system supports the latest IDE hard drives (currently up to 160GB in size), dual firewire ports, onboard ethernet, digital audio, agp, pci, standard connectors (ps2, serial, vga) in a 8″x5″x11.5″ form factor. Great system for a small portable PC (maybe lowend server as well..) — however, I’m waiting for the AMD Athlon version…
Thu 25 Jul 2002
Microsoft Corp. on Wednesday unleashed a flurry of security bulletins warning of problems in several of its products, including SQL Server 2000, Exchange 5.5 and Metadirectory Services 2.2.
Quick list:
- two buffer overrun bugs in SQL Server 2000 — allows an attacker to compormise data w/o authenticating…
- Metadirectory — unprivileged users can connect and bypass security..
- Exchange Server — allows an attacker to overrun the server and execute code on the server..
And just to round it out .. Microsoft released a patch for both Media Player and Windows XP — this first patch didn’t really patch what it was suppose to patch so Microsoft released another patch to patch the patch.
And a link for all of you that this is a concern to: eWEEEK!
Wed 17 Jul 2002
The rumored 17″ iMac made its debut today — the specs: 17″ flat screen monitor, 800mhz G4, super-drive (CD-RW/DVD-RW), Geforce 4MX, 80GB ATA HD, USB/Firewire/Ethernet, Apple Pro speakers, Mac OS X, the standard iSuite.. $1999 .. Hmm.. wonder if you still have to pay $100 for the .mac service..
iPod now for Mac and Windows — now in 20GB varieties (yippie!)
Of course .. the new release of OS X … lots of new features .. better support for windows file sharing (say goodbye to the 3rd party offerings..).. faster quartz extreme gfx engine .. updated to gcc 3.1 development tools (faster, better, yada yada..)
The biggest problem I see is their website